Letters to the Editor

Dixie Pledge shows political bias

The recent Dixie Pledge that was presented by a local PAC for the St. George City Council candidates to sign was defended by the PAC's chairman in a recent letter.

He still doesn't get it. The council membership is a nonpartisan position: no political party affiliation or bias. It doesn't matter what is in the pledge; it states a political opinion from a specific political party. It was poor judgement by the PAC to request the candidates sign it and poor judgement by the candidates who signed it.

I will vote for the candidates who did not sign it; they know what the definition of nonpartisan is and are not intimidated by any political party. They can think for themselves.

Brian Heuer

St. George

Churches, not government,
should control marriage

The root of the homosexual marriage issue is that we have allowed government to usurp control over marriage - a covenant that once was solely a religious and family affair. Government has used its control over marriage to unjustly give different benefits to one class of persons (married) than to another (unmarried).

The homosexual rights fight will end when we get government out of marriage and eliminate the government's discrimination between married vs. unmarried persons. The only proper roles for government in marriage are to protect the First-Amendment right of the churches to define marriage as they see proper, to perform marriages for those who don't want a church wedding and to provide a means to enforce the marital contract when the churches can't.

If government isn't taken out of marriage, homosexual rights activists will continue to successfully wage their war against the rest of society until they have forced homosexual marriage upon everyone along with far more serious unintended consequences, including forcing all churches to recognize and perform homosexual marriages, child marriage, marriage between siblings, marriage between parents and children, plural marriage, etc.

Return full control over marriage and family to the churches now!

Blaine Nay

Cedar City

Sheriffs should enforce the laws

I am writing to express my concern about Beaver County Sheriff Cameron Noel and his speech late last month at the convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association. The Southern Poverty Law Center, internationally known for tracking the activities of hate groups, considers it an extremist group. It is part of the growing "Patriot Movement," which often engages in New World Order conspiracy theorizing and advocates extreme anti-government doctrines.

The Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, in particular, believe that county sheriffs have both the authority and duty to override federal laws. It was founded by Richard Mack, formerly a Provo police officer who makes regular appearances on the white nationalist radio talk show "The Political Cesspool," as well as Liberty News Roundtable out of Highland, Utah, another hate radio broadcast.

Beaver County residents deserve a sheriff that will enforce the law and not leave it to his own discretion.

Reid Luzzader

Hyde Park

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Letters to the Editor

The recent Dixie Pledge that was presented by a local PAC for the St. George City Council candidates to sign was defended by the PAC's chairman in a recent letter.